[p4] Introduction slides

[Robert Cowham]

If I were you I'd point newbies at P4V rather than P4Win. It is the future,
and also has changed the terminology to make it easier to understand in my
experience.

Otherwise you seem to be on the right track.

My presentation at Perforce European conference talked about some triggers
and automation - e.g. one to create a default client workspace for new
users. Might be worth considering something like that (e.g. don't just
create a client workspace with default views and sync the whole shebang -
chop it down in the trigger).

Robert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Steven Bougon
> Sent: 19 October 2006 19:48
> To: Perforce Users
> Subject: [p4] Introduction slides
> 
> Hi there,
>  
> I was asked to hold a brown bag on "Perforce for Dummies" for 
> non-technical folks are our company. (read: Marketing folks 
> are going to check in some .xls files)
>  
> They need to know how to:
>   - set up p4win
>   - what and why SCMS
>   - how to checkin/checkout
>   - go through the revision history.
>  
> So, it's really a introduction on SCMS, with hands on P4Win
>  
> And yes, I already pointed them to the very good 
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.061/manuals/intro/intro.pdf
> but I still need to produce some slides
>  
> So, before writing my own perforce4dummies.ppt, I wanted to 
> ask if one of you is aware of such material available 
> somewhere in the public area of the perforce.com site ?
>  
> I searched and could not find it. Let me know if you know 
> about something similar
>  
> thanks a lot,
> Steven
> PS: I'm thinking about the following
> 1) What's wrong with Windows Explorer ?
> 2) Perforce allows you to:   
>    * keep an history of a file change
>    * retrieve a specific file revision
>    * lock a file 
>    * knows who is editing the file at the same time
>    * have permissions set on some directories
>    * receive an email everytime somebody modifies a certain file
> 3) How does it work (Perforce server, Metadata in a DB)
> 4) How to set up Perforce
>    * request a user id/passwd
>    * crtl+o to enter the good setting
> 5) Get started:
>    * sync some files
>    * edit one (description)
>    * submit
> 6) advanced:
>   * receive email notification
>   * command line :-)
>   * (internal) http://devweb and //xxx/yyy/... ????
>   * windord and excel p4 plugin
> 7) DO and DON't
>   * never delete a file, or change a file permission via 
> Windows Explorer
>   * always use p4win to delete, edit a file
>   * don't sync //xxx/yyy/... (couple if Gig) :-)
>  
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